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http://dx.doi.org/10.14573/altex.1911071 | DOI Listing |
Nat Commun
August 2025
Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
Anti-pituitary-specific transcription factor (PIT)-1 hypophysitis is an autoimmune disease characterized by hormone secretion impairment from PIT-1-expressing pituitary cells, accompanied by malignancies with ectopic PIT-1 expression. Cytotoxic T cells (CTL) targeting PIT-1-positive cells have been implicated in disease development, yet direct evidence is lacking. As human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matching is required for modeling T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases, we employ induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to generate pituitary organoids harboring the patients' HLA haplotype and coculture the organoids with PIT-1-reactive CTLs isolated from the patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
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August 2025
Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Increasing evidence strongly links neuroinflammation to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Peripheral monocytes are crucial components of the human immune system, but their contribution to AD pathogenesis is still largely understudied partially due to limited human models. Here, we introduce human cortical organoid microphysiological systems (hCO-MPSs) to study AD monocyte-mediated neuroinflammation.
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August 2025
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; Medical-Risk Avoidance Based on iPS Cells Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Tokyo 1
Multi-cellular organoids are self-assembly aggregates that mimic biological functions and developmental processes of many tissue types in vitro. They are widely employed for disease modeling and functional studies. Hypothalamus-pituitary organoids can be generated through differentiation induction from pluripotent stem cells.
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May 2025
Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
The APOE gene is a major genetic determinant of neurovascular and immune function, yet the mechanisms by which its isoforms modulate brain vulnerability to pathogenic stress remain incompletely understood. Here, we employ isogenic human iPSC-derived immune-vascularized-Forebrain Organoid-based Multicellular Assembled Cerebral Organoids (FORMA-COs)-to dissect isoform-specific responses to a clinically relevant viral challenge. We find that APOE2/2 and APOE4/4 FORMA-COs exhibit heightened viral RNA burden and distinct neuroinflammatory profiles compared to APOE3/3.
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October 2025
Senju Laboratory of Ocular Sciences, Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 6-4-3, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-Ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan; Senju Laboratory of Ocular Sciences, Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 4640 S Macadam Ave., Suite 200C, Portland, OR, 97239, United States; Department of Oral Reha
Proteolysis by calpain enzyme contributes to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death in hypoxic monkey and human retinal explants, although the mechanism is not fully understood yet. The present experiments are to determine if calpain activation in mitochondria and the subsequent oxidative stress were underlying mechanism driving RGC death in a hypoxia/regeneration culture model, using retinal organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Retinal organoids were differentiated from human iPS cells.
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